Meaning of grain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
2. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley
3. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
   uncountable
4. A village in Isle of Grain parish, Isle of Grain, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).
5. A tine, prong, or fork.
6. One of the branches of a valley or river.
7. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa
8. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
   uncountable
9. A surname.
10. An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
11. A single seed of grass food crops
12. A single seed of grass food crops.
    countable
13. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
14. The crops from which grain is harvested
15. The crops from which grain is harvested.
    countable, uncountable
16. An arm of a cross.
17. A linear texture of a material or surface
18. A linear texture of a material or surface.
    uncountable
19. A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
20. A single particle of a substance.
    countable
21. A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
    dialectal
22. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
    countable, uncountable
23. The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
    countable, uncountable
24. A fork in a river valley or ravine.
    dialectal
25. The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
    countable, uncountable
26. The branch of a family; clan.
    dialectal
27. The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
    countable, historical, uncountable
28. The groin; crotch.
    dialectal
29. Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
    countable, historical
30. The fangs of a tooth.
    dialectal
31. The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
    countable, historical
32. A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
    countable, uncountable
33. The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
    countable, uncountable
34. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
    countable, uncountable
35. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
    countable, uncountable
36. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
37. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
    countable, uncountable
38. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
    countable, uncountable
39. Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.”

“a grain of wheat”

“grains of oat”

“The fields were planted with grain.”

“A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.”

“Cut along the grain of the wood.”

“He doesn't like to shave against the grain.”

“a grain of sand”

“a grain of salt”

“all in a robe of darkest grain”

“[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.”

“The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.”

“brothers […] not united in grain”

“Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains”

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